AAK is the world’s leading manufacturer of high value-added specialty vegetable fats. The products can be used as substitutes for butterfat and cocoa butter, trans-free solutions for fillings in chocolate and confectionary products, and in the cosmetics industry.

The raw materials come from the plant kingdom and are renewable. AAK’s fats are used by the food, chocolate, confectionary and cosmetics industries, and as vegetable lubricants for machinery and ingredients in animal feeds. AAK is organised into three business areas: Chocolate & Confectionery Fats, Food Ingredients and Technical Products & Feed.

Group Functions include the head office and the operations of Ceylon Trading. Lipids for Care is responsible for operations involving the cosmetics industry and is a rapidly growing business sector of Chocolate & Confectionery Fats. AAK has production facilities in Denmark, Mexico, the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden, Uruguay and the USA. AAK’s head office is in Malmö, Sweden. It acts as a central meeting place for the whole Group.

AAK is represented with procurement and sales offices in several key locations around the world. The Parent Company, AarhusKarlshamn AB, is a Swedish registered joint-stock company based in Malmö. The Company’s shares are officially listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange, Stockholm, in the Mid Cap segment, Consumer Commodities sector.